wxWindows changes name

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wmwd2zz02 at sneakemail.com
Mon Mar 1 20:32:26 EST 2004


Asun Friere wrote:
> The fear of genericity explains why Xerox
> launched a big campaign to introduce the word 'photocopying' (instead
> of 'xeroxing')

Aha! So we should all start using the term "windowing" to
mean the act of using a computer (of any brand) with a GUI,
and promote the use of this term at every chance we get...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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